- pertaining to or dealing with elements, rudiments, or first principles: an elementary grammar.
- of or relating to an elementary school: elementary teachers.
- of the nature of an ultimate constituent; simple or uncompounded.
- pertaining to the four elements, earth, water, air, and fire, or to the great forces of nature; elemental.
- of or noting one or more elements.
- not difficult; simple; rudimentary
- of or concerned with the first principles of a subject; introductory or fundamental
- (of a function) having the form of an algebraic, exponential, trigonometric, or a logarithmic function, or any combination of these
- chem another word for elemental (def. 5)